Revelations

Fields Of The Nephilim

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 9, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Beggars UK - Ada
• ASIN: B0000018AS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #221,062 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Revelations is Classic Ethereal Gothic Rock, August 3, 2001

By	Dancing Ganesha "Dancing Ganesha" (Northern Hemisphere) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

With the mysterious yet commanding "Moonchild," its epic grandeur of mysticism and mystery enshrouding, you know this is going to be an excellent album from beginning to end.

Note that this is REAL Gothic rock, not in any way to be compared to say, "Switchblade Symphony." While that too is Goth, it's another type altogether.

Nephilim is based on true Gothic genre. The blending of ancient magick (the lead singer is an avid occultist), H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu, the Necronomicon, Aleister Crowley, and other diverse influences, is but the pinnacle.

Lead singer McCoy is a shaman of sorts, who leads his band into this aura of otherwordliness. His voice, dark, and often sepulchral, is not to be paralleled, and makes most of the music much more electrifying.

The musicianship by all, in fact, is excellent, not to be biased.

McCoy takes on different roles in the songs. At times, he becomes his infamous yet mysterious "preacher" figure, next, a desperado torn between his powers of life and death, standing at the brink of apocalypsic doom and gazing into the abyss, or, as in the track "Vet For The Insane," he becomes an imprisoned psychotic who sings about "the flowers in your kitchen they weep for you..."

One of the most outstanding songs on here is Psychonaut Lib, an entrancing work which features a prayer to bring on "Leviathan" and conjurs the spirits of the earth and sky through McCoy's singing and riveting 6000 year old chants...

Truly bizarre, truly enrancing, and above all, a word which few dare use anymore: truly ROMANTIC gothic.

No love songs on here, and well, I am happy, for one, that this band focused more on the true meaning of Gothic than moping about in black and singing pretty songs about breaking up. Break up songs are not romantic, everybody breaks up.

It's different when you actually see past the world you live in, and break through to the other side.

Much like Morrison, another shamanic figure, McCoy leads us into a dreamscape which doesn't seem that far from out own reality at present...

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent textural goth, January 23, 1999

By	dolph zielinski (elmhurst, illinois USA) - See all my reviews

If you area fan of gothic music and have not heard this band, you are seriously missing something. This "greatest hits" package is a good place to start, but if you want a great album experience, pick up Elizium, a truly landmark album.

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Initiation, February 20, 1999

By A Customer

This album, bought -- if I recall correctly -- entirely on a whim, was the beginning of my infatuation with Fields of the Nephilim, a relationship that has grown over the years.

Coming across this album at the same time I was developing a fascination with all things occult, particularly the ceremonial magick of Crowley, I found it to be the perfect soundtrack for my readings and experimentations -- powerful, brooding, dark, mystical, and always with the sense of something strange and unknown hidden just out of reach. Song titles like "Psychonaut Liber 111," "Love Under Will," and "Moonchild" kept up the Thelemic romance, not to mention the hints at a Lovecraftian universe and the voice of the old Beast himself (in otherwords, Aleister Crowley).

All in all, an album beyond compare, as all the FoTN works are, and certainly worthy of far better than the sneering reviews from 'experts' that Amazon has provided us with.

Get a copy, and prepare for your own initation into the mysteries of the Nephilim.